Sturday Night Special

Last night was great

Car and Driver Top 10

Car and Driver once again solicited cars from manufacturers for an intense week of evaluating and testing for their annual 10 Best List. Their criteria is fairly straightforward and can be broken down with three words: expectations, assumptions and surprises. And the three rules for judging? A base price no higher than $71,000. The car must be on-sale no later than January of 2007 and the manufacturer must submit a model for Car and Driver's staff to evaluate.

The Chevrolet Corvette made the Car and Driver 2007 Top 10 Best Cars list. The review includes the usual chest pumping that are the hallmarks of any Corvette review: Chevy's pushrod driven V8 engine extracts copious power while composite body panels keep the car light. But the money quote is the summary:


This combination of heritage and sophistication gives the Corvette a uniquely American blend of performance, swagger, and everyday livability — characteristics that are all amplified in the 505-hp Z06 version. And in one final bow to tradition, the Corvette delivers this virtue at a price vastly lower than any of its competitors.


Interestingly, each car that made the 10 Best List had the EPA City Mileage number posted, but not the highway. I love telling people how Corvette can get upwards of 28-30 MPG on the highway.

Well...duhhh!

All Vettes Welcome

Where: Fudruckers in Dalton, Ga

When: November 30,2006
06:00 EST

For directions please email me: danra8@msn.com

Cleveland Corvette Club

MEETING: Third Tuesday of the month

LOCATION: Antonio’s Corner Restaurant

3700 Michigan Ave

Cleveland, Tennessee

7:00 P.M.

River City Corvette Club

The RCCC will be going on a "Fall Color Cruise" to Fall Creek Falls State Park on Nov. 5, 2006. We will meet at the Tractor Supply store parking lot off of hwy 27 in Soddy Daisy, Tn., Sequoyah Exit, around 1:45pm EST. We will leave at 2:00pm EST. We will dine when we arrive. All Corvettes are welcome. Come on out and join the fun on Sunday!

Thursday Night Fun

Our last meeting was rather small, but loads of fun.

We both had a great time being entertained by "The Ninja" and RT.

So thanks guys! Here are a couple of photos from the evening.

PS-don't order a hamburger at a Mexican restaurant!

Saturday Sizzles

Saturday Sizzles

Sorry this one was late guys. I'll try harder next week. Have a good one.

"Kick Off" Of Our Fall Cruz

Say "Cheeeeeese"!

Color

Green Machine

Keith with a sweet school teacher from Raleigh, NC.

That Is One Fine Automobile!

What a View

Fall Cruz 2006

Saturday Sizzles

Fall Cruz 9/7/06

Meeting Place: 9:00 am at the Cracker Barrel in Cleveland,TN.

Cruz up to Fontana Dam in NC.
Lots of pretty fall colors to be seen on this trip.

Maybe we'll stay the night, maybe not.

If you would like to join the cruz, check out our Scenic Vettes message board link to the right.
www.scenicvettes.proboards80.com/index.cgi

Saturday Sizzles

We have searched high and low to bring two beautiful things together...Corvettes and women. We will post a new "Saturday Sizzles" every week. Lets kick things off with four eye catchers for the price of one. Have a great week.

Upcoming Events

www.buyavette.net

Corvette Raffle

The National Corvette Museum has kicked off a Corvette raffle fundraiser featuring a 2007 Lemans Blue Corvette Coupe – limited to only 500 tickets available at $250 each. The winner need not be present to win and will be drawn on Friday, October 13, 2006 at 12:00 noon C.T.
The Lemans Blue C6 Coupe features black leather interior, chrome wheels, transparent top, automatic transmission, and the 3LT packaging that includes Head-Up-Display, heated driver and passenger seats, memory package with two driver settings and more. The winner will also receive the exciting R8C Museum Delivery Program option benefits when picking up their new Corvette. The program is a memorable experience for new Corvette owners and offers a VIP tour of the Museum and Corvette Assembly Plant, one-year individual membership to the Museum, hands-on training by a delivery team member, program decal and plaque. R8C participants are also entitled to exclusive merchandise opportunities featuring embroidered program logo and their car's imagery.
“Pulling the winning ticket and making the phone call to the winner is an exciting part of our fundraisers,” states NCM Executive Director, Wendell Strode. “Being able to offer the opportunity to win a new Corvette to an excited raffle winner never becomes routine to us. Our raffle fundraisers are such an important part of our strategy and we are truly grateful to everyone who participates.” Photos of previous raffle winners are available via National Corvette Museum website.

Car of Your Dreams

Lucky!

In January of 2006, Alan Poster was stunned when authorities notified him that his stolen Corvette had been recovered ... 37 years after it disappeared from a parking garage in New York City.

As a 26-year-old in the late 1960s, Poster indulged himself by buying a brand new blue Corvette for $6,000. Three months later, in January 1969, it was stolen from a parking garage in Manhattan, and since he was unable to afford theft insurance -- Poster lost the car and his $6,000. He never imagined he would see his car again.

In January of 2006, authorities notified Poster that the car had turned up in Long Beach, California. Apparently, an American collector was selling the car to a buyer in Sweden when a routine Customs check flagged the vehicle as stolen. The collector isn't suspected of any wrongdoing, and nobody knows where the car had been or how many hands it had passed through.

With the help of the California Highway Patrol, the Customs Service and the New York Police Department, the car has been returned to Poster.
"This is definitely a miracle," said Poster. "Because in speaking to the police, the odds of them finding me were a million to one."

The car Poster paid $6000 for in 1968, is now worth anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000 today, according to a Florida classic Corvette dealer.

Finally, they are here.

After a long wait, my brakes have arrived!
Now I just have to actually get them on the Vette!

Corvette Porn

Never let it go to your head!

Hot Girls Love Corvettes?

Washing the Vette

I would like to talk about cleaning the car, this is a bout a 3 hour deal. First I start inside. I vacuum the carpet then wipe down the dash and door panels. Wipe out the seats and then clean the windshield about once a month. I silicone the weatherstrip with armorall or some product that is similar. This is to lube the weather strip more than any thing else. I also apply leather treatment about once a month to the seats. This does not take long and it keeps the leather looking good. Then I open the hood and clean the parts of the clam shell that the soap brush will not reach. I use a clean damp rag, and then I close the hood. I use car wash soap and a very soft brush. I open the hood again and raise the head lights if I have used them in the last week. I close the hood again and make sure every thing is rinsed real well. I dry the car with a micro fiber towel. I get out the window cleaner and clean and polish the outside of the cars glass for a very clean and shiny look. I clean the wheels with wheel cleaner first then I go back over them with window cleaner since they are chrome.Cleaning them again makes for a very nice mirror reflextion.I apply tire shine. Once a month I wax the wheels and the car. Now without waxing this is about a 2 to 3 hour job depending on how hard I am working at it.When waxing I apply two thin coats, this is about a 6 hour job. Here's the great news, I do not think about work, bills or any thing else but what I am doing. It is a nice way to relax and chill out.if you think that spending this much time on a car is crazy, then you just don't get it. But think of all the time you spend a week watching crapovison or reading magazines or working for someone else to get them rich. When it comes time to clean the car, none of this crap matters. So, to me this is almost just as good as driving the car. The vette has helped me more than a shrink could have and will probably cost me less over time.

corvette freinds

here are some web sites of some cool people with vettes check out there sites and if you live in the chatt area and own a vette join the forums

http://scenicvettes.proboards80.com/index.cgi
and check this site out
www.fastcoolcars.com

brakes

well i believe it is time to put some brakes on the vette i think i am going to replace the brakes with some better perfomance brakes from summit racing i will use cross drilled and slotted rotors as well as a better than oe pad some thing along a hawk pad i think will be good, i will aslo drain all of the old brake fluid and replace it with d.o.t 4 fluid it has a higher boiling point wich is always a plus and will cost about 3 more dollars to replace than d.o.t 3, today i noticed that the oil pressure dropped to about 60 psi at idle when the engine is warm i am not realy worried about this seeing that it was sitting above 80 psi when i bought the car so i changed the oil and it looked ok, and the new oil looks ok so i am guessing that i have a bad oil pressure sensor on this car this is not uncommon on these engines and they are cheap to replace so i will be buying a oil pressure sensor also and i will replace it when i get my next oil change done in about 2000 miles

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top off

this is not going to be a big post, tonight i am going to talk about driving the car with the top off yep that's right with the brains blown out. this is one of the best features of these cars the targa roof i can only think of a couple of cars right now that have targa roofs and none of them except the vette is made here in the state's and none of them have v8 power, what can you say? Ttops suck they always leak drop tops are noisy and may leak and the tops cost a ton of money to fix, targa roof is like a ttop car with out the leaks and with out the crappy bar in the middle of the roof, i have both roofs for my car the clear one and the body colored roof the clear one lets to much light in something like a green house, but the body color is perfect. i can pop the top when i want and i can have the comfort of a hard top all other times and if i feel like it i could have a moon roof also. all c4 vettes are targa roof, and most of the newer vettes are targa roof, if you can not picture a targa roof i will put some pictures up this week end with brains blown out for you

This page

This Blog is dedicated to one of the best sports cars ever built the C4 corvette, At the time that these cars starting showing up in show rooms they where the fastest Americana made sports cars and the best looking Americana made sports cars. To this day there are very few cars built that can match these cars in the performing area, yes there are a lot of new cars that can do some things as well and even better then the C4 corvette but very few cars that can do what these cars can do all of the away around, The C4 can handle very well, stop well, and go like all hell, and best of all they look good doing it. Also i would like to add that this is my first corvette but i have wanted one for many years, As time goes by i will let you in on upgrades and repairs as they are needed

Corvette Hub

I hope to turn this blog into a
"Corvette hub".
Soon I will be making more
posts for all Corvette lovers.
Stay tuned!